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 bodies. For the latter of these two objects, without which indeed the former could scarcely have been attained, unfortunately he had to contend, not only with public prejudice, but even with law itself. The circumstances of the time may, in a great degree, account for this; but that in these days, and in this metropolis, and for an object so interesting and essential to the public weal, no adequate provision should yet be made, which is not stigmatized by illegality, and by constantly laying us open to the artifices and impositions of low and degraded men, is a defect m our jurisprudence, which, we trust, the growing good sense and consideration of the public will not long suffer to continue.